39 Cal. 2d 541 - Feinstein v. State Bar’s Empirical Analysis
1952
Citation profile
30 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 30 later decisions — most recently August 2000 · most notably 5 Cal. 3d 390 - In Re Jones (1971), 29 Cal. 3d 356 - In Re Petty (1981)
30 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on In Re Lavine · Petersen v. Lewis · 11 Cal. 2d 699 - In Re Lacey · Kepler v. State Bar · 14 Cal. 2d 736 - In Re Andreani
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 30 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“`The person seeking reinstatement, after disbarment, should be required to present stronger proof of his present honesty and integrity than one seeking admission for the first time whose character has never been in question. In other words, in an application for reinstatement, although treated by the court as a proceeding for admission, the proof presented must be sufficient to overcome the court's former adverse judgment of applicant's character.' [Citations.] In determining whether that burden has been met, the evidence of present character must be considered in the light of the moral shortcomings which resulted in the imposition of discipline.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.